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The quote bank — Sports and Recreational Activities

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Scrapbooks are just brimming with our sports and recreational activities. And sometimes it can be difficult to come up with something NEW to say from page to page, year to year. Here we come to save the day. P.S. Got any good quotes that you don't see here? Submit them and we'll post 'em!

SPORTS AND RECREATION

Basketball

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket —Abe Lemons

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up —Bill Vaughn

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot —Bill Russell

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass —George Raveling

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy —Jerry Tarkanian

Basketball is like photography. If you don't focus, all you have is the negative —Dan Frisby

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not —Charles Barkley

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on my yet —Julius Erving

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that either —Dave Barry

Basketball doesn't build character. It reveals it.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball —Bobby Knight

Baseball/Softball

People ask me what I do in the winter where there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out teh window and wait for spring. —Rogers Hornsby

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile —Tom Clark

A hot dog at the ball game beats roast beef at the Ritz —Humphrey Bogart

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too —Roy Campanella

I don't want to play golf. When I hit the ball, I want someone else to go chase it —Rogers Hornsby

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen —Bob Lemon

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love —Bryant Gumbel

There are only two seasons—winter and baseball —Bill Veeck

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back —Woody Allen

Golf

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf —Robert Lynd

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad —A.A. Milne

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Forget your opponents; always play against par —Sam Snead

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser —Arnold Palmer

The say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that —Gardner Dickinson

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick —P.J. O'Rourke

A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water —Bob Ryan